Five for Friday

I am so excited to link up with Doodle Bugs Teaching for my first

I taught summer school this summer and we finished two weeks ago. Somehow last week flew by with a short trip to Charleston, SC. This week, my mom came to visit from Florida to see her sweet granddaughter. So,

While my mom was here visiting, we refinished a table for my kitchen. I am absolutely in LOVE with the way it turned out!

I have finally started working on stuff for this school year...which starts in less than 2 weeks, ya'll!!! It's crazy that summer has FLOWN by! I have almost finished my first week of school plans and wanted to share a few of my favorite read alouds for building community.

Great for teaching children to be themselves.

Great for lifting up others. I will then combine this idea with Random Acts of Kindness.

Great goal setting book. 

We rewrite the rules to how to keep all your friends. It's amazing the rules kids come up with!

Hobby Lobby steal alert: I got 6 yards of black fabric for bulletin boards and displays this year. The fabric was not on sale, so I used the 40% off coupon. If you don't know about this by now, move out of under that rock! Hobby Lobby has a 40% off coupon on their website (or just Google the coupon), that you can use off ANY item as long as it isn't already on sale. So anyway, I got all 6 yards for $14.36! That comes out to $2.39 a yard. Major score!

Classroom ambiance is important to me. I want my students to feel at home in my classroom and I like it to be cohesive and homey, of course. So, I found these three signs for my classroom this year. I'm not sure exactly where I am going to put them, but I think each has a great message for my kiddos.

I LOVE spray paint to begin with because it saves so much time, but chalkboard spray paint? Thank you to whoever came up with this! I got a few cans to get some projects ready for school coming up, so come back Monday to see what I made this weekend.

What projects are you working on this week?

~Kelly